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What is The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

24 February 2025 | Infographic

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. Its sessions are organized by ECLAC, as secretariat of the Conference, and since 2020 in coordinationwith the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to analyse the status of women’s autonomy and rights at the…

What is The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

24 February 2025 | Infographic

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. Its sessions are organized by ECLAC, as secretariat of the Conference, and since 2020 in coordinationwith the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to analyse the status of women’s autonomy and rights at the…

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 3. International trade as an opportunity to promote women’s economic autonomy: contributions for reflection in Latin America and the Caribbean

10 June 2024 | Infographic

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean face structural challenges related to the region’s pattern of productive and trade specialization; and these are compounded by persistent gender inequalities, both in labour markets and in the social organization of care. Poorly diversified production and vulnerability to external shocks make it more difficult to achieve gender equality. These factors detract from labour market dynamism, restrict the exploitation of capacities and lead to an unequal distribution of the benefits of growth and the costs of economic adjustments. Moreover, violence …

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 2. Design and implementation of the District Care System of Bogotá: a political, social and fiscal covenant

6 March 2024 | Infographic

In recent years, cascading crises, including the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have highlighted the unjust social organization of care and the need for a new development model centred on care and the sustainability of life (ECLAC, 2022). These crises present an opportunity to design bold policies and to transition to a care society that prioritizes people and the planet (ECLAC, 2022). In the Buenos Aires Commitment, adopted at the fifteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America a…

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 1. Child marriages and early unions: inequality and poverty among women, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 December 2023 | Infographic

Child, early and forced marriages and unions are defined as a union in which at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. The overwhelming majority of formal and informal child marriages and unions involve girls, although in some cases their male spouses are also under 18. As stated in the Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices, and Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of 2 July 2015, on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate ch…

Repository on time use in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 September 2023 | Infographic

Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions. Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030.…

Are there gender inequalities in Education and Employment in the Caribbean?

21 September 2023 | Infographic

True or False: Are there gender inequalities in Education in the Caribbean? The infographic titled Education Inequalities explores gender disparities in education and employment across the Caribbean. It highlights notable progress in educational access, with both genders benefiting, especially in primary and secondary education. However, the data reveals that girls generally outperform boys academically, particularly in fields like biology, physics, and IT. On the other hand, boys excel in subjects such as mathematics and economics. A significant concern is the drastic drop in male…

Infographic What is a DaLA?

15 March 2023 | Infographic

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is a pioneer in disaster assessment in the region and developed a methodology called DaLA to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters. Find out in this infographic what it is, how it works and what it is for countries.…

Bringing an end to violence against women and girls and femicide or feminicide: A key challenge for building a care society

25 November 2022 | Infographic

Violence against women and girls and its most extreme expression, femicide, feminicide, or the gender-related killing of women and girls,1 dramatically bring to light the persistence of the structural challenges of gender inequality and gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean. The deep historical and structural roots of patriarchal, discriminatory and violent cultural patterns, grounded in a culture of privilege, have proven among the most difficult to dismantle.…

Femicides or feminicides that occurred in 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean

24 November 2021 | Infographic

Femicide is a problem that continues to affect thousands of women and girls each year in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite the fact that it has increased its visibility and the pressure exerted by the massive movements of women who have expressed their rejection of violence against women. gender in different countries.…

Time-use measurements in Latin America and the Caribbean

12 July 2021 | Infographic

“Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030…

Violence against women

29 November 2016 | Infographic

Violence against women is a form of discrimination, directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionally. This violence seriously inhibits women's ability to enjoy their human rights and freedoms on a bsis of equality with men.…

Femicide

16 November 2015 | Infographic

Femicide is the most dramatic expression of violence against women. According to official data from the region’s countries compiled by the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC, 1903 women were murdered because of their gender in fifteen Latin American countries and three Caribbean nations in 2014.…

Violence against women

11 November 2015 | Infographic

Violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean must be addressed comprehensively by States, taking into account factors of economic, social and cultural inequality that operate in society and in the power relations between men and women.…

MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

9 September 2015 | Infographic

This infographic is part of a series produced by ECLAC to assess the degree of compliance with the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

9 September 2015 | Infographic

This infographic is part of a series produced by ECLAC to assess the degree of compliance with the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

Women in Senior Positions in Major Latin American Companies

27 February 2015 | Infographic

Despite the rapid incorporation of women into the labor market since the 1970s, inequalities remain in the quality of jobs and access to them. In the region this is clearly manifested in the limited presence of women in executive positions at major companies. ECLAC reviewed the situation of 72 such businesses.…

Adolescent Maternity in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 November 2014 | Infographic

Latin America and the Caribbean is the second-largest region in the world in terms of adolescent fertility, only surpassed by sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, this phenomenon is more recurrent among the lower-income population, contributing to the intergenerational cycle of poverty.…

Women’s Participation in Politics

29 August 2014 | Infographic

Five female presidents govern today in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the number of women legislators, judges and mayors has increased in recent years. But these leaders represent no more than 26% of the total, on average, according to data from ECLAC’s Gender Equality Observatory. The Commission provides here the latest data on women’s participation in different spheres of political power.…

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